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WomanSpace, March 2007

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Volume 19 Number 3 www.womanspacesatx.net
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THIS IS OUR fiNAL HA'RV COPY Of WOMANSPACE. WE HOPE YOU WILL VISIT
THE WEBSITE AT WWW. WOMANSPACESATX.NET
The WomanSpace collective
will meet for the last time on Feb. 28 to
get this final newsletter out to you. For
nineteen years and three months, this
paper has come to you once a month,
and, for the most part, on time. That's
a huge commitment. How many of us
would agree to go to monthly meetings
(and in the early days twice monthly)
for nineteen years? That's longer than
some relationships last.
Some of us came in and out
during that time, some came in and
then left town. But there was always a
core group of women dedicated to get­ting
the paper out and raising money
and awareness and subscriptions.
Things were a lot different
when we began. There still weren't a
lot of places for us to meet comfortably
except for bars and gay churches.
The Esperanza Center was just getting
on its feet and provided another gay/
lesbian friendly place for groups to
meet and organize. It gave us a non­profit
umbrella to work under at the
beginning, especially when the Texas
Lesbian Conference came to San An­tonio.
Still, we went to three different
banks before one would open an ac­count
for the LISA Line.
In 1990, WomanSpace along
with Elias, the Latina Lesbian organi­zation,
under the Esperanza umbrella
sponsored the Third Texas Lesbian
Conference, and the paper gave us a
way to recruit volunteers and keep the
local women informed about the
event. We provided information about
events, and we also provided articles
by, for, and about local women.
We sponsored a yearly Poetry
Contest, and later added Short Stories
to the event. Two of our collective
members, have gone on to have sev­eral
books published through Naiad
Press and later Bella Books.
WomanSpace has outlived
any other Lesbian/Gay publication that
has come and gone in San Antonio.
We made the decision early to make
the paper available by subscription
only, which affected the numbers of
readers, but we have had a small-but­mighty
loyal subscribership that has
kept us alive for nineteen years. We
thank you for showing up to all of the
fund raisers, the Wildflower /Wild
Women cookout, the Poetry/Short
Story Contest readings, the booths at
the Pride Picnics, the book readings
for Frankie and Peggy, pot lucks, con­ferences
and concerts.
Now, those of us who have
been keeping this commitment for all
of this time are done. We are taking
on new responsibil ities, or trying to get
rid of old ones. Also, the subscriptions
are dwindling and costs of printing and
mailing are going up. And , we won-
Collective Members:
der, is WomanSpace as a paper still
relevant in this age of computers?
Initially, plans were made for
WomanSpaceto be "absorbed" by an­other
publication that was about to
start, but that has been tabled. So what
does that mean?
The website is still up and run­ning
and will carry the advertisers in­formation,
and any of our regular col­umnists
who would like to contribute to
the website. The email address will still
be active, and the LISA Line will still be
operating for the time being.
If you have a subscription or
have paid for an advertisement and
you would like a refund, please send
an email to us at: womanspace@
grandecom.net, or write to us at: PO
Box 12327, San Antonio, Tx. 78212.
Advertisers, if you do not request a
refund, we will continue to run your ad
on the website.
Please take time and read the
names of the collective members be­low
and silently thank them. Then look
inside for a few notes from some of
them. They all want to thank you, our
readers and supporters, for such a
great run.
To keep up with special
events , go to the website listed above,
and get on the SALIR yahoo groups
email list at: http://groups.yahoo.com/
Rhoda Auerbach, Mary Brennan, Alyson Cameron, Carol Collins, Peggy Curet, Lucy Duncan, Debbie Dutcher,
Helen Hallman, Peggy Herring, Elizabeth Kemmer, Jan Olsen, Janice Pichler, Maren Phillips, Martha Prentiss,
Marge Reed, Janet Rivers, Grace Rosales, Ann Slater, Jill Zimmerman
WomanSpace, PO Box 12327, San Antonio, Tx. 78212.
LISA Line (Lesbian Information San Antonio): (210) 828-LISA (5472)
Website, www.womanspacesatx.net.
Email: womanspace@grandecom.net